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...harmonious commission in Washington, the five commissioners lean heavily on such loyal staff members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...
...good-natured, thoughtful Negro, Mose had wandered into Mississippi from Louisiana, landed at last on the Rutherford plantation. There he lived contentedly, preaching and farming, until his marriage to a bad Negro woman from town lost him the respect of his neighbors, earned him the enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then...
Professor Eastman quoted the late Professor Gerald Birney Smith: "Protestantism has suddenly become conscious of the inartistic quality of many phases of its portrayal of religion. . . . If Protestantism is worth preserving it can be preserved only as it shall be made as obviously dignified and worthy as Catholicism. But this dignifying of Protestantism cannot be a mere imitation. . . ." Poetry Society. Catholicism is well aware that it is "dignified and worthy." Like Author Ludwig Lewisohn (see p. 55) it knows that poems as well as masses save souls. There is in the U. S. a Catholic Writers Guild. Last year there...
Herbert Welch to Seoul, Korea. . Lauress J. Birney to Shanghai. Fred B. Fisher to Calcutta. John W. Robinson to Delhi. Edgar Blake to Paris. John L. Neulsen to Zurich. William F. Oldham to Buenos Aires. Ernest G. Richardson to Atlanta. Charles L. Mead to Denver. Frederic D. Leete to Indianapolis. Robert E. Jones to New Orleans. Luther B. Wilson to New York. Joseph F. Berry to Philadelphia. Francis J. McConnell to Pittsburgh. William O. Shephard to Portland, Ore. William F. McDowell to Washington...
Registration in two more departments of Boston University took place today, the School of Law and the School of Theology. At present the indications point to a normal entering class in the Law School, though a decrease is expected in the upper classes. Dean Birney of the Theological School expects the enrolment to be nearly forty per cent, less than last year, as many who would have attended the school in normal times have entered Government service or are engaged in Y. M. C. A. work...